Archive for March 2009

Another Pseudo Virus threat

Mar 27th, 2009 | By Ed | Category: Internet, Security, Site News

Another pseudo-virus (a pop-up that warns your system has a virus. When you click oK it installs a script that flags a virus (when it isn’t) and redirects your browser to their website so you can pay them to “remove” the virus) going around - Malware Defender 2009.

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Emails from “Domain Notice”

Mar 23rd, 2009 | By Ed | Category: Internet, Security, domains

It seems that there is a huger harvesting of domains going on right now and a company called “DomainNotice” is sending out email.  Plain and simple - this is a scam.
They offer to keep your site indexed by “search engine” (what, they don’t even know Google?) and if you do not pay them $75 for [...]



Secure your wireless networks!

Mar 17th, 2009 | By Ed | Category: Computers, Internet, Security

It is interesting, in a sad way, to see how little people are willing or able to do just to protect themselves.
For example, I checked the local wireless networks my other computer could see.  There were a total of 9 (including my own).  Out of those 9, 2 were secured networks (including my own).  Out [...]